Clothing & Adjective Agreement

* Notes * Adjective Agreement Practice * Dustbin * Writing Prompt *

It does not matter
WHO is wearing the clothing, you look at the article of the clothing to find
the gender/number of the clothing.

la ropa (feminine, singular)

el vestido (masculine, singular) even
though a boy does not wear a dress.

los pantalones (masculine, plural) even though one person
wears the pants, the adjective is plural to describe pants.

Adjectives need to
match the gender and the number of the noun they describe.

Adjectives that end
in –o can have four forms:

masculine singular
- o

feminine singular -
a

masculine plural -
os

feminine plural -
as

The ending of the
adjective changes to match the noun.

Adjectives that end
in –e or any consonants will agree with either a masculine or a feminine noun.

What adjectives do
you know that can be either masculine or feminine?

fuerte, trabajador, inteligente, verde, azul, etc

Make these adjectives plural:

fuertes, trabajadores, inteligentes, verdes,
azules

So who decides what makes the dress masculine or the clothing feminine? The Royal Spanish Academy decides. Each noun is published in a Spanish-English dictionary with either (m.) or (f.) next it to signal gender. Changes to the language and alphabet are decided by the Academy.

DIRECTIONS:

Based on the picture to the left, describe each of the articles of clothing in Spanish.

You need to make sure the color agrees in number and gender with the object of clothing that is being described.